# ville
## English
### Noun

ville (plural villes)
* (US, military, historical) A Vietnamese village.
** 1989, Ernest Spencer, Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man: Reflections of a Khe Sanh Vet, page 247:The fighting holes and trenches scattered in and around each ville indicate battle after battle - some only planned, others fought. We move toward a tree-lined ville.
** 1990, Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried:On Halloween, this real hot spooky night, the dude paints up his body all different colors and puts on this weird mask and hikes over to a ville and goes trick-or-treating almost stark naked, just boots and balls and an M-16.

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Latin villa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vij/

### Noun

ville f (plural villes)
* city
* town

#### Synonyms

* citai

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, cognate with English will, German wollen. The Germanic verbs goes back to Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, which is also the source of Latin volō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vilə/, [ˈʋilə], [ˈʋelə]

### Verb

ville (present tense vil, past tense ville, past participle villet)
* (transitive) to want to, be willing to
* (auxiliary, in the present tense) shall, will (with the infinitive, expresses future tense)
* (auxiliary, in the past tense) should, would (with the infinitive, expresses conditional mood)

#### Derived terms

* ville vide at
* ville vide af
* ville til at
* vil du tænke dig
* verden vil bedrages
* om du vil
* ikke ville høre tale om
* hvis du endelig vil vide det
* hverken ville eje eller have
* det vil sige

#### References

* “ville” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “ville,4” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Estonian
### Noun

ville
* illative singular of vile

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ville, from Old French ville, vile, inherited from Latin vīlla (“country house”). Doublet of villa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vil/
* (Canada) IPA: /vɪl/
* Rhymes: -il
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ville f (plural villes)
* town, city
    Synonym: cité

#### Derived terms

* avoir ville gagnée
* centre-ville
* clés de la ville
* hôtel de ville
* village
* ville fantôme
* ville morte
* ville nouvelle
* ville verte
* ville-dortoir
* ville-satellite

### Further reading

* “ville”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Noun

ville f pl
* plural of villa

### Anagrams

* velli

## Latin
### Noun

ville
* vocative singular of villus

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French ville, vile.

### Noun

ville f (plural villes)
* city or town

#### Descendants

* French: ville

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French ville, from Latin vīlla (“country house”).

### Noun

ville f (plural villes)
* town
** 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 540:Trachier la ville par Torteval.To seek for the town by way of Torteval.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

ville
* definite singular of vill
* plural of vill

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse vilja, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-.

#### Verb

ville (present tense vil, simple past ville, past participle villet, present participle villende)
* to want to, be willing to, shall, will, should
* would

### References

* “ville” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Adjective

ville
* definite singular of vill
* plural of vill

### Verb

ville
* past of vilja

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* vile
* vill (rare)

### Etymology

From Latin vīlla.

### Noun

ville oblique singular, f (oblique plural villes, nominative singular ville, nominative plural villes)
* city or town

#### Descendants

* Franc-Comtois: vèlle
* Middle French: ville
** French: ville
* Norman: ville

### See also

* cité
* vilage

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²vɪlːɛ/

### Verb

ville
* past indicative of vilja